I awoke to four boys jumping on my bed the next morning. And then four boys were screaming to get away from me, then laughing as they cowered behind Miss. Knight.
We walked to the school together, and I was glad that no one had some alter ego that they switched from when they were at home to school. I walked into math with Kendall and Carlos.
I went up to the teacher, "Hi. I'm Lilly Truscott, the new student."
"Oh yes, Miss. Truscott, your principal from your last school has told me a lot of about you. I heard that you really are able to make a classroom a much more enjoyable place for both the students and teachers." The math teacher, Mr. Williams, smiled.
I nodded, raising up my hands slightly, "I do tend to do that sometimes."
"Well, welcome to high school, it's my pleasure to welcome you. Why don't you take a seat next to Mr. Knight and Mr. Garcia?"
"Don't mind if I do. Thank you, Mr. Williams." I smiled, going to sit in the seat between Kendall and Carlos. They both turned and raised an eyebrow at me, I shrugged, muttering, "I was a good student, and teachers liked me."
The day went by quickly after that, and, as a joke, Kendall, Carlos, and Logan left before James and I. The walk turned into a bit awkward, then a bit more comfortable, and then just completely hilarious.
"OK, what I'm about to tell you is completely serious? Got it?" James grinned, arm in arm with me.
I nodded, "Yeah, 'course." I smiled
"So, um, Lilly, I was wondering if you would go to prom with me." James asked nervously, rubbing the back of his neck.
I smiled, "I'd love to. You don't have to act so nervous, you know."
James chuckled, shrugging, "I thought you wouldn't have taken me seriously. Sorry."
"No need to apologize."
Days turned into weeks, and before I even knew it. Prom was here. In exactly eight hours.
"Fuck. Fuck. Fuck." I muttered, looking for through my closet. Surely I would have a dress for prom, but of course, I didn't.
"Hey Katie…." I drawled out, looking back at my best friend's sister on my bed.
"Yeah, Lil?" she replied, still looking through a magazine.
"What dress should I wear?"
"You're asking me that?"
"Of course."
Katie's nose scrunched up a bit, "What about that white one? On the closet door?"
I looked at the white mini-ish dress, it had a black ribbon around the waist and was slightly ruffled the west of the way down, I nodded, smiling, "Good pick." I gave her a high five as I walked into the bathroom, already starting to get ready.
...
During the middle of Prom…
I let James lead me while dancing, I was terrible, but as long as he guided me, I would be fine with dancing. Actually, maybe even good. And as ironic it was the song playing through the speakers was 'Stolen' by Dashboard Confessional. I could have laughed at it, but I played off it, lifting my head up off his shoulder and reaching up to whisper in James's ear, "You have stolen my heart."
James chuckled, shaking his head, "I thought you said friends could go to Hell to lying to their friends."
"Who says I was lying?" I whispered, tilting my head to kiss James lightly on the lips as the song reached the climax, if that's what you would like to call it. James was hesitant at first, but he soon kissed me back, lightly at first, but becoming deeper as the seconds went by.
Soon though, James smiled through the kiss before pulling away.
"I think I'm the luckiest guy in the room at the moment." he smiled a little bit bigger.
I shook my head, "There are probably millions of girls that would kill to be me now, and I think I'm the one that's lucky."
James shook his head; leaning down to what I thought was to kiss me again, but his left our lips at what I would think to be a centimeter apart. I could feel the words forming on his lips as he said, "A million kisses could never compare to the one you just gave me." Before he closed that silly centimeter and kissed me again. James pulled away again, smiling brightly before spinning me in circles in the heels I was wearing.
We looked the way we felt, happy and giddy with excitement.
I didn't even notice the three boys glaring at us at a table far from us.
Gustavo stared at the page in disbelief, "Since when does James write songs?" He asked.
"Ever since himself and Lilly started dating." Logan grumbled, his eyes narrowing at the couple sitting next to each other on a couch, too close for comfort, and heads bent closely next to each other, writing another song, no doubt.
Kendall couldn't even look at those two when they were together anymore, "Things were so much easier back in Minnesota." He muttered as he sat down on the couch in the recording studio next to Carlos who was glaring at the ground.
"Now you all know I don't usually care about your relationships, but why is James the only one that's happy?" the record producer asked the three out of four boys he had founded. "You all have your own girlfriends; James was the only one without one until Lilly came."
Carlos finally spoke up, "Because we all liked her at one time, and I speak for myself when I say I think I still like her."
"Same here." Kendall muttered.
"And me too. But James always gets the girls." Logan growled.
Gustavo's eyebrows knitted together, "Why don't you all fight for her? Win her heart?"
The three boys laughed, and Logan spoke up, "Because we're hockey players. The only thing that we came close to winning from a girl was a key chain."
Gustavo shrugged, "Then you don't really love her."
The laughter died down, and Carlos spoke up, murmuring, "Yeah, we do love her. But we just don't know how to get her back."
Gustavo laughed this time, "You're artists, write her a song."
"We… can do that." Kendall grinned.
"Thanks Gustavo." The boys stated as they left the recording studio.
Kendall could have worked with the other guys, but he had his own song in mind. He chewed on the wooden pencil slightly, sitting on Lilly's bed, thinking. Kendall had always thought well when he was around his Lilly.
Kendall picked up Lilly's guitar carefully, and began to strum to what he had written already.
I could feel her breath as shes sleeping next to me Does he watch your favorite movies?
Sharing pillows and cold feet
She can feel my heart; fell asleep to its beat
Under blankets and warm sheets
If only I could be in that bed again
If only it were me instead of him
Does he hold you when you cry?
Does he let you tell him all your favorite parts?
When you
Does he sing to all your music?
While you dance to purple rain
Does he do all these things?
Like I used to?
Kendall twirled the guitar pick in his fingers, thinking of what could have come next. There was always when they had gone to the drive-in together. When it was just the two of them, Lilly had insisted on taking her car, but Kendall had insisted taking his truck. In the end, Lilly had won. Kendall smiled slightly, thinking back. He may not have confessed his love for her that night, but he modeled what he would have sung in 'Let's Be Friends.'
months and 7 days ago,
Oh I know you know how we felt about that night
Just your skin against the window
But we took it slow and we both know
It should've been me inside that car
It should have been me instead of him in the dark
He smiled at those lyrics after writing Repeat chorus on the notebook paper in front of him. He quietly configured if that was true. Had it really been almost 2 years already? More than likely, because Kendall remembered that night plain as day, or night in a sense, because it was a hot night in June.
Kendall's thoughts were interrupted when Lilly walked through her bedroom door. He scrambled to hide the music, sitting on the page with lyrics, but keeping her guitar on his knee, like he had been playing.
"Hey, Lillypop." He greeted her.
Lilly smiled, falling back on the empty space on her bed beside him, "Hey Kendall."
"Good day?" he asked silently, of course she had a good day. Kendall could already tell by her facial expression.
She nodded, thinking, "It may have been better."
"If what?" he asked again, a shred of hope still clinging to him.
"If you would have hung out with me instead of always disappearing." Lilly grinned, looking up at Kendall.
Kendall smiled, that shred of hope growing again, "We can always hang out now, y'know."
"Yes, I do know. That's why I went to find you. And you were in here. Which may I ask why?" Lilly asked, still looking up at him, smiling slightly.
"Nope. You'll figure it out sooner or later." He smiled.
Lilly tugged slightly on his shirt, "Lay down, please. We can watch a movie, your pick. I've missed you."
Kendall nodded, "I don't know what movie, you pick."
"Alice in Wonderland?" Lilly asked, smiling.
"I'm good with that." He grinned, agreeing to Lilly's favorite movie.
"Good, cause you have to put it in."
Kendall shrugged, just thankful that he was going to be able to spend some time with Lilly without the guys. He slipped his song underneath Lilly's bed, along with her guitar before leaning forward to reach out, grab the Alice in Wonderland DVD and placed it in the DVD player.
When he laid back down next to the person who would always be his, smiling slightly; Lilly tugged on his right arm, lifting it up slightly so that way she could place her head at the space between his arm and chest, leaving her head on his chest. Kendall kissed his Lilly's hair slightly before running his fingers through it.
Then abruptly, he had to ask, "Are you really dating James?"
Lilly looked up at her favorite guy person, before answering truthfully, "No."
"Why did you kiss each other at prom then? And what about all the songs?" his eyes filled with confusion.
Lilly took a deep breath, sitting up slightly, facing Kendall, and straddling his legs, lips pursed, "Remember Mitchie? From camp?"
Kendall nodded; Mitchie had had a really big crush on James the last time that they were at camp. Which was almost four years ago now, "Yeah, but what's she got to do with it?" he tried not to sound awkward with Lilly straddling his legs, so he cleared his throat a bit.
"She has everything to do with it." Lilly nodded, playing with Kendall's hands now, "James asked me to fake date him to the dance, because Mitchie was in town. So, I agreed. The only reason we kissed was to make her think that we were legit. And in which case she did, so she left. Anddd, if you listened to the songs that James and I wrote. You would have noticed how they were almost all about being with the person you hated." Lilly ended with a grin.
"…Oh, well then." Kendall nodded.
"Do you need to hear one of the songs? We recorded it, I think I may have it on my iPod." She grinned, looking down at the person she'd known since she was born.
"…Yes…" Kendall said slowly, tasting the word on his tongue. Lilly nodded, digging into her jeans pocket to find her iPod, and then connect it to the iJuke that was next to her bed. Kendall watched as she scrolled through the hundreds of songs, and then landed on one called Video Girl. Lilly smiled, concentrating on playing with the boy's hands instead of the song.
(Lilly; James Video Girl; Jonas Brothers)
Omg, did you hear I'm dating a BTR Member?
It's so hot
That didn't work you should've known better
It's gonna suck when the camera stops rollin'
And you find out soon that the treatment wasn't worth it
They're all the same, they all want the money
They're all insane, they live for fame, honey
They laugh at you when you're not even bein' funny
Well I've been here before
And I've seen
First hand and front row seat
This little thing they call
A video girl (girl, girl)
Video girl rocked my world
For a whole two seconds
And now I know
I'm not about to be another victim
(Of the video girl syndrome)
Get out of my face
Get out of my space
Get some class and kiss the past
'Cause I'm not about to be another victim
Of the video girl syndrome
You know it's bad when your momma doesn't like her
All your friends are sayin' she's a lair
Never ending phone calls aren't enough
(It's not enough, it's never enough)
Move to L.A
Got no talent
Not even like she won a miss teen pageant
Daddy pays her bills but she'll still whine
Well I've been here before
And I've seen
First hand and front row seat
What happens to a man
(What happens to a man)
When he gets in the hands of a
Video girl rocked my world
For a whole two seconds
And now I know
I'm not about to be another victim
(Of the video girl syndrome)
Get out of my face
Get out of my space
Get some class and kiss the past
'Cause I'm not about to be another victim
Of the video girl syndrome
You are never gonna see me missin'
Video girl syndrome
I'm not gonna be another victim of the video girl syndrome
Yeah oh woah oh
Video girl rocked my world
For a whole two seconds
And now I know
I'm not about to be another victim
(Of the video girl syndrome)
Get out of my face
Get out of my space
Get some class and kiss the past
'Cause I'm not about to be another victim
Of the video girl syndrome
I won't be a victim
Of the video girl syndrome
Kendall grinned, mimicking a high pitched voice, "Ohmigod, I'm dating a BTR member. It's soooo hot."
Lilly smacked Kendall's arm lightly and playfully, "He made me. Promise." She giggled slightly.
"Why didn't you let the rest of the guys and me in on it? We could have helped…" He trailed off, frowning.
Lilly smiled slightly, "Why? Were you jealous?"
"No." Kendall answered too quickly, and he mentally kicked himself in the head for that.
Lilly grinned, shrugging slightly, and slipping off of Kendall, "Whatever you say, Knight." Then she went back into her spot next to Kendall.
About halfway through the movie, Lilly had fallen asleep. And Kendall could feel sleep trying to overtake him himself. But all he wanted to do was to stare at his princess lying in his arms.
He may not have been an official knight for his princess, but he could get pretty damn close.